RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15455, 18 September 1914, Page 8

RUSSIA.

l • POSSIBLE CHANGE OF PLANS I I SUGGESTED BY ALLIES" SUCCESS j IN FRANCE. LONDON.. S.-pt, 16. The ■■Morning Post's" Petrogrnd cor. rt.jioudcnt states that General lieu- i nrnkampf ordered an advance hit') Prussia regardless of losses, in order to relieve the pressure on the west. Now that the rapid diversion of the j German troops has prevented disaster , to the French armies, it would not hs j surprising if Russia, evacuates East j Prussia and prosecutes a more advan- ', ti.geous plan elsewhere. i 1 KAISER AS GENERAL. AGAINST THE RUSSIANS. It is reported that the Kaiser is going to iead the armies which are U;ng concentrated against the cataclysm that Russia ; s preparing. The "Xov« Vi-fiaya" sav»: —'William not having succeeded in d'nhig in Paris is hastening with an empty stoma'.-h to Petrograd."' TROPHIES OF WAR. PETROGRAD. Sept. 10. j Excluding four hundred guns taken j iu Galicia. il) heavy German huwitzers. and 3G heavy cannon bearing the Ka;- j &er"s initials were captured from the I s'xt:- Gorman corns. I I

CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRIA. RUSSIAN TROOPS IN CLOVER. PETROGRAD. Sept. 16. The Russians crossed the San imlr.ed.atciy behind the retreating Austrian.?, and avoided the upper and shallower reaches of the river, whi'.-h are, guarded by the fortresses of Jaros--1 law and Przfmysl. resting many mi!1 hf.ns. and arc thus installed in a river- ! ino triangle amid a eous'derable quantity of Austrian store-. The Austrians ! were greatly flustered and had not cxI peeted tho passage of the Russ : ans io a ' district where they hoped to rest after a series of cruel defeats-ITALO-AUSTRIANS. HAM-: SUFFERED HEAVILY. ROME. Sypt. 10. Official.—lt is admitted ' in Trieste that, ]o ; 000 soldiers from Trieste and Trent, mostly Italian-speaking,- who were fighting in tho first line, were killed in the recent battles in Galicia. ARGUING FOR ITALY. The Petrograd '•Wratsh" remarks that Russ : a. and her allies would willingly ser> Trent and Trieste become Italian concentration camps for Austrian troops on the Italian frontier, and that Austria's interference in Albania is sufficient wan-ant for Italy y ning the Triple Entente. SERVIANS MOVING ON. j | NISH, Sept, IG. The Servians have occupied Visit, regard.